Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 30

Make-believe was so real to him that during a meal of it you could see him getting rounder.

Who acts: Make, you · What happens: be, see, get · To what, where: Robin, make

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Make, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
3	believe	believe	NOUN	_	1 Make	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 real	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 real	obl
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 him	nmod:unmarked
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 meal	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 meal	det
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 meal	nmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 real	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 see	advcl
20	rounder	round	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 getting	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Make		Robin		real property	tree rules
2	see	could	you	make		during a meal of meal		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	get	gerund	you not said here				round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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